HEART-KILLING CONSOLATION
State fair deep-fried consolation for those whose teams lost this weekend: the Texas State Fair, where you can eat the death-row food of those who don't want to make it down the hall to Ol' Sparky, batter-fried bacon. There's also this quote, which may summarize all you may need to know and never understand about state fair cuisine:
"This is the Chocolate-covered Strawberry Waffle Ball. It's a plump fresh strawberry dipped in chocolate and then covered in sweet waffle batter and then deep-fried. Makes perfect sense."
No, no it doesn't, sir. Not in the least.
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let the record show that the chocolate covered strawberry waffle balls are also served on a stick. and as you all know, everything is better when served on a stick.
by gerry dorsey on Sep 2, 2008 10:17 AM EDT reply actions
wow. And all I had at Nebraska fair was gyros and giant corn dogs. I feel so…inadequate.
by Flatlander on Sep 2, 2008 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
The new horror at this year’s Orange County fair (though I’m sure it has been in Big 10 country awhile) was deep fried White Castles.
by oc phil on Sep 2, 2008 11:03 AM EDT reply actions
@2
Mangino’s trying to figure out how to beat him to it. Luckily he has on his speedy velour tracksuit.
by SEC Supremacist on Sep 2, 2008 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
After all the alcohol and food before the Oil Bowl (UT vs. OU- in case those of you SECers and Big 11ers don’t know), this sign sums it up. The Cotton Bowl people know their audience.
by blon57 on Sep 2, 2008 11:07 AM EDT reply actions
Amateurs.
http://wcco.com/entertainment/chocolate.covered.bacon.2.753746.html
That’s right, chocolate covered bacon and a pound of bacon fried and carmelized with maple syrup.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Sep 2, 2008 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
They’re actually deep frying fruit now? Health Nazis.
by Digital Headbutt on Sep 2, 2008 11:16 AM EDT reply actions
I think that makes some sense because strawberries and/or chocolate commonly appear on waffles. This is just an all-in-one version of such. Its not like its deep fried spaghetti and cucumbers…which until now did not exist.
by Brian on Sep 2, 2008 11:27 AM EDT reply actions
As someone from the upper (literate) south, I thought the residents of the deep dirty dirty were the national standard setters for fried food. Then I went to the Iowa State Fair a few weeks ago.
Dear. Gawd.
After seeing the butter cow and butter shawn johnson, there was nothing to do but eat and watch others eat. Glorious/heartbreaking/I think I have diabeetus. If you’ve never been, go.
by now_a_hoo on Sep 2, 2008 11:35 AM EDT reply actions
texas had a butter elvis last year.
just sayin’
by gerry dorsey on Sep 2, 2008 12:41 PM EDT reply actions
I guess it’s un-Texan of me to say that my favorite thing to get at the Texas State Fair is still good old fashioned roasted corn on the cob — no batter, no frying — although it does have plenty of butter.
I don’t understand why I can’t recreate the same corn on the cob at home. I have to wait a year to get the stuff.
by diamondm on Sep 2, 2008 1:10 PM EDT reply actions
WSR – did they still have the deep-fried Snickers-bar-on-a-stick? Or the five-pound buckets of chocolate chip cookies?
by SpartanDan on Sep 2, 2008 1:17 PM EDT reply actions
#15-
Not only do we still have the deep fried candy bars and 5 lbs. buckets of chocolate chip cookies (within staggering distance of all the milk you can drink for 50 cents), but we also now have deep fried reubens on a stick and deep fried twinkies.
Just think about that last one for a second. Not only is it deep fried (and will help you die early), but it’s something that’ll take 50,000 years to decompose while in your stomach.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Sep 2, 2008 1:39 PM EDT reply actions
I’ll vouch for the deep-fried twinkies. They also taste vaguely like fake banana flavoring, which I had a hard time wrapping my brain around.
by now_a_hoo on Sep 2, 2008 2:46 PM EDT reply actions
I would eat every deep-fried food mentioned so far without hesitation. I’m no athlete, I’ve got metabolism on my side and posting comments to sports blogs requires no physical exertion whatsoever. So pass me another deep fried snickers bar please.
by IVSPORT on Sep 2, 2008 2:47 PM EDT reply actions
That woman judge in the chef’s jacket needs to cut her smoking down to about 4 packs a day. “These people love fried food as much as I do”—yes, Ma’am, it’s obvious that you love fried foods.
by Nate on Sep 2, 2008 8:16 PM EDT reply actions

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